Source: The Distichs of Cato (4th century), 4.19, with English translations by Duff and Chase. Meter: Dactylic Hexameter.

Learn something (disce aliquid); for when all of a sudden (nam cum subito) Luck runs out (Fortuna recessit), your skills remain (ars remanet) and they do not ever fail (-que non deserit umquam) you as long as you live (vitam hominis).

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